Yep, that's Australian Question Intonation - not the rise accompanying a question but the rise accompanying a statement. It's generally believed that the function of it is to confirm that the listener comprehends the speaker and also functions as a floor-holding device. It's a fairly recent phenomenon too (last few decades) and is thought to have coincided with the massive influx of migrants post-WW2. (that's two thirds of my essay content right there :P)
Sadly, I'm at uni at the moment and out of cable internet quota so looking at the website again is going to have to wait until I get home
I like this idea of making my hypothetical new blog devoted to linguistics. It would kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, and I wouldn't feel so much like I was boring the people who read my blog with all this babble about accents and so forth.
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Date: 2006-11-10 01:36 am (UTC)Sadly, I'm at uni at the moment and out of cable internet quota so looking at the website again is going to have to wait until I get home
I like this idea of making my hypothetical new blog devoted to linguistics. It would kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, and I wouldn't feel so much like I was boring the people who read my blog with all this babble about accents and so forth.